Visiting Hungarian minister says migrants ‘evidently’ make Vienna dirty and poor, as he vows to keep them out of Budapest

The chief of staff for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted a video on his Facebook page Tuesday showing him in a district of Austria’s capital that he says is dirtier, poorer and increasingly crime-ridden since immigrants began living there.

Minister Janos Lazar says in the video that in 20 years, Hungary’s capital of Budapest could look like that unidentified Vienna neighbourhood if opposition parties “let in the migrants.”

Hungary’s parliamentary elections are April 8 and the fervently anti-immigration Orban’s Fidesz party has made migrants the focal point of the campaign.

“Evidently the streets are dirtier, evidently the area is poorer and there’s lots more crime,” Lazar says. “If we let them in and they will live in our cities, the consequences will be crime, impoverishment, hospices and impossible urban conditions.”

“We are working to prevent this phenomenon,” Lazar said.

Lazar said only elderly pensioners remain in the Vienna district “among whites and Christians,” while “everyone else is an immigrant” for whom “a city within a city” is being created.